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Offline HuskyPete

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Take your pick
« on: May 03, 2011, 12:33:54 pm »



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Re: Take your pick
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2011, 07:48:41 pm »
love the Maico XR80 :D
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Re: Take your pick
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2011, 03:01:07 am »
Do you have any better shots Of keiths 81-490S. thanks
Bill
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Re: Take your pick
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Re: Take your pick
« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2011, 07:45:27 am »
Thank you, Getting ready to do a resto of a 81 -490 GS..do you have his phone #?
Thanks again
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Re: Take your pick
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Re: Take your pick
« Reply #9 on: May 04, 2011, 10:01:26 am »
I kinda like the look of the white bike but the red hub/black rim combo on #69 makes me a bit nauseus.
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Re: Take your pick
« Reply #10 on: May 04, 2011, 10:06:01 am »
Those 81 490s are fantastic  8) its refreshing to see maico 490s as i remember them back in the day in our local dealers and at the track and believe me there were a lot of them  :)

Most Maico owners down our way didn't mess with them at all save replacing the Cortee cosso shocks for Ohlins  ;) there were no bloody yellow, blue or purple ones and all the ones i see these days have more bling than puff daddy  ::)

Very nice machines , aside from their now legendary performance and handling , IMHO in std trim thet really are a very good looking mototorcycle  ;D
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Re: Take your pick
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2011, 10:33:28 am »
I couldn't agree more Bill. They're a great bike stock but people keep thinking that they can make 'em better by blinging them up. Now, I love a bit of bling myself but some of this non period billet stuff goes way high on my bad taste meter. I read somewhere that Kingadner or one of the old Maico pros reckoned that the alloy swingarms didn't offer as much feel as the stock chro-mo item. I've got two alloy swingarms to suit the '81 490, an original period Thor/Wheelsmith and a Maicos Only replica and they're both heavier than the original steel arm. For that reason (plus the fact that every other 490 seems to have one) we've so far left it off the Klub Kevlar 490 Maico.
All that's needed is a good set of aftermarket shocks (Ohlin/YSS/whatever), PVL ignition, balance the crank to make it smoother and jet the stock Bing correctly and you've got a bike good enough to win anything-anywhere.
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